# Officer Rivieri Builds Bridges Among Baltimore's Youth (R.O.) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552 "2008-02-14T03:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/201 "2008-02-20T20:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] That’s silly. Rivieri wasn’t out stopping “dude” sayers. He was telling skateboarders who knowingly skateboard where they know it’s illegal to leave. One got smart-ass. How many times does this have to be repeated? They know it’s illegal, they’ve said they know it’s illegal and “100% wrong” but they like to do it anyway and film it because it’s fun. [/QUOTE] Repeated? It didn’t even need to be said once. How many times do you need to be informed that the police officer tackled the kid before he used the D-word? Or that when the cop approached them, the kid had the board under his arm? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/202 "2008-02-20T20:38:03Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] Hey, everybody! It’s “Spot the False Dilemma” with our charming host, **levdrakon**! He’s pretending not to see a gaping middle ground somewhere; can you find it? Lollipops and a beating to the first kid who guesses correctly! [/QUOTE] Middle ground? Ah yes, the middle ground: [QUOTE=George Kaplin] Officer Rivieri is a man with two significant problems. The first problem is that he’s an inadequate, abusive, piece of shit bullying pigfucker maggot should-have-been-a-blowjob shit for brains cunt. The second problem, if that weren’t enough, is that he’s just been busted for it. He was caught on camera ripping some scrawny 13 year old kid to shreds for almost five minutes for the heinous crime of calling him “Dude”.\ I circulate this because I want to do my part in the permanent dismissal of Officer Rivieri. I would dearly love to be a cog in the gearbox of a machine working ineluctably to ensure that this maggot never holds a position of responsibility again. I would like you, if possible, to join me in registering your disgust with the Baltimore Police Department and add to the growing chorus of voices calling for the unequivocal dismissal of this pathetic pile of human wreckage. The appropriate mailing address is: \ You can also contact them via their \. Just make sure they know you’re talking about Officer Salvatore Rivieri. [/QUOTE] Niiiiiice. Middle ground, you’re looking for a middle ground? Read my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/203 "2008-02-20T21:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Middle ground? Ah yes, the middle ground: Niiiiiice. Middle ground, you’re looking for a middle ground? Read my posts. [/QUOTE] No, you don’t get to pick out the most extreme opposite reaction in order to justify your own bullshit, I’m afraid. And for that matter, I _do_ support this man being removed from his position of responsibility (not enough to start an email campaign - that’s just silly), but that’s not an extreme position IMO. You’ve conveniently ignored **George Kaplin** ’s example of how Rivieri might have more maturely dealt with the situation; presumably because you know he has a point. Face it; this cop had no sense of self-control, no sense of perspective and in the end, no professionalism. For all your bullshit about respect, the fact is that we actually expect better behaviour from our cops than our teenagers. The fact that the video shows exclusively teenaged behaviour reflects badly on just one man: Officer Rivieri. None of your “won’t someone think of the children” bullshit about maimed toddlers will change that, nor will it change the fact that Officer Rivieri had a vast range of options in front of him, many of them sane, all of which he spurned in favour of having a hissy fit worthy of a two-year-old who’s dropped his ice cream. If you’re fine with that, well, bully for you. I expect a bit more from my guardians of the peace, and if that makes me a cuddlywuddly skateboard-murderer-loving peacenik in your mind, then I’m quite happy with that. Dude. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/204 "2008-02-20T21:31:47Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] No, you don’t get to pick out the most extreme opposite reaction in order to justify your own bullshit, I’m afraid. [/QUOTE] It’s not the most extreme reaction, dude. It’s the fucking OP, dumbass. It’s a clearly marked RO thread and I’m not getting the RO. Kthxbye! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/205 "2008-02-20T21:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] It’s a clearly marked RO thread and I’m not getting the RO. [/quote] Actually, while the OP might have marked it RO, i personally think that concern about the abuse of authority by the police is not RO; it’s something that everyone should be concerned about. The fact that you don’t get it reflects badly on you—either on your intelligence, or on your morals; perhaps both. [QUOTE=levdrakon] Kthxbye! [/QUOTE] What are you? 14? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/206 "2008-02-20T21:54:16Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] What are you? 14? [/QUOTE] Dude, like whatever. I wasn’t doing anything. I don’t have a father. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/207 "2008-02-20T22:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Dude, like whatever. I wasn’t doing anything. I don’t have a father. [/QUOTE] Dude, like totally, do you want your skateboard taken away? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/208 "2008-02-20T22:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] Dude, like totally, do you want your skateboard taken away? 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ll trade you for the bee suit. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/209 "2008-02-20T22:24:30Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] Dude, like totally, do you want your skateboard taken away? 😃 [/QUOTE] At least the mods won’t put him in a headlock and throw him to the ground when he’s co-operating. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/210 "2008-02-20T23:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] At least the mods won’t put him in a headlock and throw him to the ground when he’s co-operating. [/QUOTE] ::looks up:: Oh, you’re new here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/211 "2008-02-20T23:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] It’s not the most extreme reaction, dude. It’s the fucking OP, dumbass. [/QUOTE] We’re four pages since the OP, you, like, Nazi. Like, move the fuck on, dude. Honestly, though, this is some lazy shit you’re showing here. Justify your own arguments; don’t point at others you think are being equally stupid. Although, come to think of it that’s pretty much precisely how you’re justifying Officer Rivieri behaving like a child, so I shouldn’t be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/212 "2008-02-20T23:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] We’re four pages since the OP, you, like, Nazi. Like, move the fuck on, dude. Honestly, though, this is some lazy shit you’re showing here. Justify your own arguments; don’t point at others you think are being equally stupid. Although, come to think of it that’s pretty much precisely how you’re justifying Officer Rivieri behaving like a child, so I shouldn’t be surprised. [/QUOTE] Justify my arguments? I think I have, and I’m sick of justifying them and having asswads continually coming in and say "I think Officer Rivieri should be sent to prison and ass-raped to death forevers!!!11! 'cause like I was a dick once and this one cop one time was a dick to me, and like death to all cops! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/213 "2008-02-20T23:45:05Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Justify my arguments? I think I have, and I’m sick of justifying them and having asswads continually coming in and say "I think Officer Rivieri should be sent to prison and ass-raped to death forevers!!!11! 'cause like I was a dick once and this one cop one time was a dick to me, and like death to all cops! [/QUOTE] Which I said … where? Really, I’m embarrassed for you. If this lame shit is all you’ve got, I suggest you go pick on some teenagers for having long hair or something. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/214 "2008-02-21T00:06:37Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] Which I said … where? Really, I’m embarrassed for you. If this lame shit is all you’ve got, I suggest you go pick on some teenagers for having long hair or something. [/QUOTE] Yeah, well. I think you should come over to my house and snuggle with me. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/215 "2008-02-21T00:27:13Z")
Only if I can be the outside spoon. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/216 "2008-02-21T01:52:41Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] Only if I can be the outside spoon. [/QUOTE] Don’t do it! He’s got Uri Geller in the closet waiting to bend you! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/217 "2008-02-21T01:59:14Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > You’re right about that. I probably won’t see the inside of a cop shop because Because what? Because they won’t let nutters with hard-ons for street justice like you on the force? Didn’t you say you were a wannabe who couldn’t pass the tests? > [@levdrakon](#): > > When come back, bring funny stories of your civil rights abuses. > > Oh, and while you’re amusing yourself pissing off cops, remember they could have been otherwise occupied stopping real crime, which I’ve heard sometimes occurs in Baltimore. Why are you equivocating me with Eric Bush? Is it time to go to the hospital and get a check-up on the ol’ gulliver? You know I live 3,000 miles away, don’t you? It’s in my location bar. Answer me this, though: if Officer Rivieri’s time is so valuable, why does he spend it beating up kids instead of catching real criminals? You just told me that skateboarding in public isn’t a “real crime”, yet you advocate violent punishment for it without a trial? You’re an odd one, aren’t you? > [@saoirse](#): > > How many times do you need to be informed that the police officer tackled the kid before he used the D-word? Or that when the cop approached them, the kid had the board under his arm? Give **levdrakon** a break–he hasn’t yet mastered the skill of watching a video on the Internet. Hey levvy, you know they have free classes for that kind of stuff, right? > [@levdrakon](#): > > Justify my arguments? I think I have, and I’m sick of justifying them and having asswads continually coming in and say "I think Officer Rivieri should be sent to prison and ass-raped to death forevers!!!11! 'cause like I was a dick once and this one cop one time was a dick to me, and like death to all cops! Who said that? The abuse-by-cop thing is a product of your own apparently fertile imagination (if only your logic skills were so sharp!); are you projecting? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/218 "2008-02-21T02:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Because what? Because they won’t let nutters with hard-ons for street justice like you on the force? Didn’t you say you were a wannabe who couldn’t pass the tests? [/QUOTE] Ah, my poor petulant attention seeking child, I’m going to go all mature on you and let that go. G’night though. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/219 "2008-02-21T04:57:57Z")
Funny how most of us are trying to find a rational solution, yet you, despite your abundant maturity, insist that police officers should use violence on children who are being cooperative. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552/220 "2013-05-20T12:38:02Z")
Yes, I know this is a 5 year old zombie thread by a now-banned poster, but… I just found [another video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Mts9gMGKo) of the very same cop in the very same place being an asshole to another guy. It’s a much shorter video, but Jeebus that guy has a temper. It was also filmed the year before the skateboard incident – the guy who filmed it saw the skateboard story on the news and spoke up about his earlier encounter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/officer-rivieri-builds-bridges-among-baltimores-youth-r-o/437552.md?page=12)